Inspiring ted talks for the computer programmer in all of us.

Clay Shirky: How the Internet will (one day) transform government

Shirky talks about how we have invented a new way of arguing. How the decentralization of a system and allowing of multiple users to manipulate and improve code in such place such as GitHub is revolutionizing our systems as we know it.

Kevin Slavin: How algorithms shape our world

Stephen Wolfram: Computing a theory of everything

I like big ideas and I love the sound of this work and project of WolfraAlpha. Watch Wolfram discuss his brain child from curiosity into the exploration of computer power

http://www.wolframalpha.com/

Its a computer knowledge engine. You put in a question and it will try answer.